Bloom's Taxonomy

The six cognitive process categories are comprised of nineteen (19) specific cognitive processes:

Remember	Understand	Apply	Analyze	Evaluate	Create
Recognizing	Interpreting	Executing	Differentiating	Checking	Generating
Recalling	Exemplifying	Implementing	Organizing	Critiquing	Planning
	Classifying		Attributing		Producing
	Summarizing
	Inferring
	Comparing
	Explaining

Four types of Knowledge: factual, conceptual, procedural, metacognitive

Type	Subtype	Example
Factual Knowledge - discrete, isolated content elements	Knowledge of terminology	Technical vocabulary
	Knowledge of specific details and elements	Ten biggest cities in the world
Conceptual Knowledge - interrelationships among the basic elements within a larger structure	Knowledge of classifications and categories	Forms of business ownership
	Knowledge of principles and generalizations	Newton's laws of motion
	Knowledge of theories, models, and structures	The quantum theory, the structure of Congress
Procedural Knowledge - knowledge of how to do something and criteria for using skills, algorithms, techniques, and methods	Knowledge of subject-specific skills and algorithms	Skills used in painting with watercolors, algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers
	Knowledge of subject-specific techniques and methods	Scientific method, using recursion as a problem-solving technique in computer science
	Knowledge of criteria for determining when to use appropriate procedures	Criteria used to determine when to apply a procedure involving Newton's second law of motion
Metacognitive Knowledge - knowledge about cognition in general and awareness of one's own cognition	Strategic knowledge	Knowledge of outlining in order to capture the structure of the presented information, knowledge of the use of heuristics
	Knowledge about cognitive tasks	Knowledge of the types of tests administered by instructors, knowledge of the cognitive demands of different tasks
	Self-knowledge	Knowledge that writing essays is a personal strength, awareness of one's own level of knowledge and skills